Good device with nice details and a significant weakness

Good device with nice details and a significant weakness

LG 60LB870V 151 cm (60 inches) Cinema 3D LED-backlit TV (Full HD, 1000Hz MCI, DVB-T / C / S, CI +, wireless LAN, Smart TV, 2.2 sound system, 50 Watt) Silver (Electronics)

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Television is not one of my pastime, but I wanted a large display, which is useful can also be used for other applications. 60 "did not seem to me to be appropriate, 4K more. Currently, I offer the usual Blu-ray and DVD technology not 4K to, although upscaling is certainly nice, but requires computing power and consume correspondingly more energy. In addition, the viewing angle stability in 4K . Displays also not so good, which is why you may still should wait a little bit here The LG TVs in HD area shine with A + or A ++, the 60 "- and 55" variant of LB870V series is content with just 63W. By comparison, my 7 year old Humax LDE-40S used to 160W and with not even full HD and 40 ". The polluter is easy to spot: CCFL tubes need more energy and produce much more heat than today's LED technology. This also has an impact in the enclosure depth, the 870V series's just 3.5cm thick. Purchase crucial for me was the sound bar, which is to provide a significantly better sound loud tests. - Also interesting is the light output of an LED TV compared to a CCFL lighting. This may be due to a lower wavelength, but despite that the LG is greater than my old Humax, he lights up the room with its LED lighting less glaring, yet offers a bright image.

Unpacking and setting up is quick of hand or is it the second time faster by hand, if you know how it goes. Four screws hold Soundbar to the stand and stand on TV. For this, the TV must lie or stand on your head that you can go without damage to plants. If you want to hang him, can the Soundbar practical brackets fix, last one covers the screws on the back panel off and you can already connect it. If one of him, the stand is elegant and visually an eye-catcher. Although levitation would be almost the better term, after all, he is hanging only on the rear part. The electrical connection to the soundbar directly via contacts in the left foot to the speaker that does not contain an illuminated LG logo. It switches off completely, that happens after a few minutes after turning it off, also expires this logo. Then he is in deep sleep and taking ridiculous 0.3W from the network. But we remain short build, the carton can be nice to pull on the device, you have to unpack it not therefore lie. Accessories is well and securely packed, the two remote controls and 3D glasses, and some adapters. Scart, AV and Component connections are realized via minijack. Nice, though a bit of getting used to. Enough space would be available, but would probably increase the housing thickness. The connectors facing straight down and left. The CI module, eg for HD +, protrudes from the slot. A small break in style, after all, is the plain white back and with cables It does not work quite so elegant. However, should you see this in the assembly also rarely. To design it should be noted that he is merciless frameless. Therefore, it acts compared to the old Humax optically not so much bulkier, although it is greater by half. The silver-gray color scheme certainly contributes a piece to.

Turns to him the first time a come funny animations and sounds that are almost self-explanatory. One chooses some details on how the country and region, tuner types, network set-top box or not, accepted the terms of use and already can be seen by the transmitter Search Remote. The course takes a little, but not too long. While he is looking for, one can for example provide in the living room in order. He then offers the WebOS menu showing all the apps at the bottom. That's also the smaller models the same, I would have expected here thanks to the four processor cores something zügigeres navigate. Feels however, he does not seem to be faster than a 55er model of the 6-series. After switching on the system starts up and displays an image directly, but it takes a good half minute before WebOS has loaded all the packages and the operation is possible. With WebOS is an open operating system, the Hewlett-Packard originally developed for tablets and smartphones and has marketed unsuccessfully. LG has now taken over this and wishes to maintain order in the television sector. The LB870V series features with the Magic Remote via voice control, the microphone is placed in the remote control. This facilitates access to functions such as access to menus or applications. What I say is also super detected and written in plain text on the display, only thing I can say, I still somewhat alien. "Settings" brought me eventually "go to channel 1" to the settings menu and even brought me to the ARD. If you read on forums through which speech recognition appears to be somewhat rudimentary and is probably a nice addition. After all, let questions and fill in text fields so that search queries. As another found the smartphone app for WebOS your TV quickly and I could then use a third variant.

To image I do not write much. I myself can not judge it and it was already much written it. Optimizations I have not made, the power saving mode may seem a little dark to me. The reason for this was because of the power setting that the display darkens with "low". In "high" it gets darker and "Automatic" adjusts the screen brightness via the brightness sensor. In quite dark rooms, however, the image is extremely dark, a way to regulate the minimum brightness, is missing. In the image settings can be used for the image mode "Standard" of the item "Automatic brightness" Choose low or high. This has nothing to do with the sensor but controls the brightness depending on the image illumination. There are many settings that are grayed out or available depending on the screen mode. However, it lacks a bit of context, a CRT TV with brightness, contrast, color saturation and sharpness was much clearer here. Now can still be LED lighting, Local Dimming and regulate some more, so that here certainly succeed the professional with some trying an individual setting. In the manual, the respective functions are short and sometimes something to be explained shortly. Also not every setting can be immediately understood by trial and error.

The camera is another feature of these series, which can be out push it up and adapt in the inclination. This is good if it hangs high on the wall. It dissolves with 8 megapixels and would therefore suffice for 4K, in the dark, it provides at least for chat useful results, especially since the TV with its large display in the illumination of something else can support .. Like a Smartphone also videos and photos edited and are recorded, you can thus use the TV as a restricted camcorder. The functions are accessible using apps still expand, but in practice that is except for the video calling anything but gimmick. The corresponding microphone provides the room a good understanding and relatively little noise, even at several meters distance is a communication problem. Microphones and speakers are far enough apart so that there is no crosstalk effect here. Video telephony between two LG TVs is something extraordinary and so offers a bit the feeling to interconnect two living rooms, as you have liked to show it at trade fairs over a decade ago. The Full-HD is thier also perfectly adequate, even if the camera resolution of 8 Megapixels corresponds already 4K.

3D is another feature that belongs in this price range as standard. While some companies rely on shutter glasses that alternately darken electronically an eye on what many also lead to fatigue, LG is working with lightweight passive glasses and polarizing filters. To this end, a film on the screen is applied, which allow for 3D two differently polarized images alternately. Dual Play is also possible that probably two images can be displayed in parallel. I did, however, lack game console can not try. In 3D mode, and while wearing the goggles, the screen looks subjectively darker, but the device delivers sufficient brightness reserves, so that does not bother. In 3D mode, other sound settings can be selected, a conversion from 2D to 3D is also possible. This seems somewhat pointlessly, since common watching in 3D mode only with glasses is possible to look someone without glasses on the unit, the picture is indistinct. In LG store to find some free 3D movies, with which you can test well the 3D function well. With Blu-Ray you have to be careful when buying, to obtain a version with 3D. This is usually located on a separate disc, which also can not be played when there is no 3D display.

Now we come to the sound bar that can boast a total of 50W music power. Here are ready 2x 10W for mid and high frequencies and 2x 12W for depths. However, the power consumption is not an indicator of volume and efficiency, here playing a role, other factors such as efficiency, suspension and resonance of the speaker. Looking at the Soundbar to, gets the audiophiles actually rather a smile on his lips. Digital amplifiers are indeed easily able to produce this power in a small space, but the physics can not nunmal outwit. The Soundbar is an elongated rod of no more than 5 cm depth (not measured). Since no woofer fits with appropriate resonance space inside and there I was, of course, once skeptical and could not wait to hear the first sounds from the unit it. Admittedly it sounds pretty good, too deep, it can at least reproduce so that one perceives it. But the noise that my Humax has produced and each replied in astonishment, this is a sonic step backwards, at least for the extreme depths. This he does not deliver true, as you would expect from a subwoofer, but a round sound with sufficient bass. I even think that behind the panel, a subwoofer may lie, at least gets the back wall to vibrate audibly and acts at least as a resonator. It would be too costly now to dismantle the Soundbar and hear whether there still bass coming out of the base unit, but I brought a few tests of this idea not from. LG has the whole tuned sound good, some sound effects and profiles and a 5Band equalizer allow fine adjustment. The function "Clear Voice" in two stages can also still highlight the language somewhat. This happens quite well, without coloring the sound significantly. In contrast to the function to automatically select the correct sound profile. This feature brings no real audible effect and yet is very mid-heavy and uses the sonic possibilities not fully made. The equalizer should be already used, so that raises the depths something and can thus create a tonal foundation. While incidentally emit at many of the smaller LG models the speakers down, the construction of the LB870V is so far better than that through the direct radiation sound bar takes place in the room. Thus, the sound propagation is not from the ground depends and acts much more direct, as is the case with the 6-seater models. The Soundbar is actually wide enough that you can attach it to the NFC tag above, so that smart phones can quickly connect to the TV with the LG SmartShare app.

Beautiful details are the braille lettering on the remote control for Power, Volume and Channel. This is mounted on the normal and also on the Magic Remote. So far I had seen this only in Samsung. Panasonic has this, despite language edition, not yet offer. An accessibility mode offers LG, but as with other models of the point voice feedback does nothing, although you can even adjust the volume of the imaginary voice. A call to the LG Hotline brought the solution, because this function is only intended for audio description on a subcarrier. In Germany, the broadcasters use this another sound subcarrier, the then original sound mixed with language. Therefore, this feature brings here're sorry, but not much. The color display and space requirements of the menus is also a bit strange. The setup menu will remain only in the left part of the image and is so narrow that writings to scroll through the menus. It would be enough space in order to present everything in fullscreen can. The color scheme of bright backgrounds with black lettering is not as nice, however, this is purely subjective. Interestingly, you can also change hands, but not the color of the menu, which is not always uniform. This is also the case in apps, here is sometimes the keyboards and colors differ very dramatically. The app via Android and iOS can operate the device. It should also be given the function of "Second Screen", so you can use your smartphone as a second display. This is well under WebOS not available, which is why one should not especially attach great importance to this feature. Overall, the app is however clear and the opportunity to use your smartphone for sound output, saves a long headphone cable. (Must be activated separately) If you have a LG Blu-ray player is connected and uses Simplink to rSteuerung, the unit can be controlled with the Magic Remote. However, this is not implemented completely homogeneous and jolts something so the transport buttons do not function on the standard remote control. If one wants to use them to record a program, an external hard drive must be connected. With the Western Digital TV AV MyPassport this was relatively straightforward. After plugging it was immediately available. One of the USB ports allow the connection of a smartphone with MHL connector, so that the screen content on the large display can be output, with the smart phone is also loaded. When the unit is off the USB ports do not provide more energy.

Although I believe the unit itself completely, I still have to get used to two elementary points. On the one hand the switch, because it takes a good half minute before the device can be operated at least limited. The modules of WebOS but need some time before they are loaded, about deceiving the speed picture playback after turning something away. If one tries, however, to operate the unit, the delays come on yet. After no more than a minute or two, however, is nothing more to feel. LG has already announced an update to WebOS 2.0, of the likely this model will benefit and which minimizes this problem start something. When you turn on the device or the last transmitter and the last input notes. As a further alienates me something the station sorting. If you read on the Internet, there are dozens of LG users of different devices that are angry about the lack or complicated possibility to sort channels. For older LG TV there was an app from a third party, with WebOS is no longer the. One way would be the Hotel Mode, in which you can export and import channel list, but so entirely without that is not well. The program manager is with the Magic Remote to control with the arrow, with the usual remote control is not to make yourself comfortable. Add to that the strange ranking, the timeslots 1-99 are apparently fixed, only from 100 can be moved and sorted. What is the logic behind it is not obvious at first glance. But it seems to have something to do with the kind of tuning. Alternatively, there is the "favorite channels" that can be distributed in four groups. This seemed to me sensible, ARD, ZDF, third and private could be divided into four groups well. But as you call these groups now on? Pressing the Favorites button jumps almost arbitrarily to certain channels, but is not logical. It would be so easy, instead of using the channel numbering, divide the channels in bouquets and to group by provider. That would meet me at the present time at the station number much more. LG makes here obviously not generally in tune with the most users, as you can see on the internet. The favorite stations display works according to the manual way, via the Live menu. This has to be opened, then click on the transmitter, the upper right corner favorites is then selected and then you can only select the favorite list. Then all the channels are hidden, that are not in this list, renumbering does not exist. To change the list or display all channels, the same steps are needed. Sorry, but what do the South Koreans because far? Due to the other consistently good features of this point does not lead me to the devaluation, you can certainly get used to it. Through the wheel at the Magic Remote, which in the 2.4 GHz band works the way wirelessly, the list goes anyway go through very quickly.

Conclusion: A television set, in which nothing to be desired, you see 4K from again. Anyway, one should bear in mind that the image distance does not have to be high enough to make any more pixels even with Full HD and this size can. However, whether at a distance of 5m someone recognizes whether there is a 4K display or not, I do not know. I was not important that, so I got a television set, in which everything fits. Functionality could be a bit better, the sound is almost good, the picture is very good and the service can get used to. The connectivity is generous, the adapter anything unusual and the energy consumption phenomenal. Anyone interested in this model, but should look at the price structure in relation to the display size. The 49 "version is still significantly cheaper, even if the speakers together back here a little closer. This consumes even less power to 54W are there I think, but only gets an A +. This is because the ratio display size and power consumption in a other relation is to one another and should not be put off. The 55 "version also consumes only 63W, such as the 60" model. As a result, all a matter of taste in relation to the wanted price.

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